Substitutions Next To Angle Brackets In Sphinx

I'm trying to use substitutions in a parsed literal block in my Sphinx documentation like this: ... |release|

Solution 1:

This works:

.. parsed-literal::

   <version>\ |release|\ </version>

.. |release| replace:: 1.7.3

Reference: http://docutils.sourceforge.net/docs/ref/rst/restructuredtext.html#escaping-mechanism

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